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A CH-148 Cyclone helicopter approaches the Royal Canadian Navy frigate HMCS Ville de Quebec for landing during a maritime cooperative activity between the Philippines, Australia and Canadian navies near Scarborough Shoal in disputed waters of the South China Sea on September 2, 2025. (Ted ALJIBE / AFP)
December 30, 2025, 2:03 pm
In tit-for-tat, Iran designates Royal Canadian Navy a terrorist organization
Tehran says move is retaliation for Canada blacklisting Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps last year, doesn’t specify ramifications
By AFP and ToI Staff
FILE: Daniel Cukierman of Israel returns the ball to Yannick Hanfmann of Germany during the Davis Cup qualifier tennis match between Israel and Germany in Vilnius, Lithuania, on January 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)
September 11, 2025, 12:22 pm
Canada closes doors to fans for tennis contest vs Israel, citing security issues
Tennis Canada says Davis Cup World Group competition in Halifax faced ‘escalating safety concerns,’ forcing what it called a ‘very disappointing’ decision
By AP and ToI Staff
Members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) march during the annual military parade marking the anniversary of the outbreak of the devastating 1980-1988 war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, in the capital Tehran, on September 22, 2018. (Stringer/AFP)
June 28, 2023, 9:32 pm
Iran takes Canada to UN’s world court, claiming terror charges breach legal immunity
Tehran says Canadian law allowing victims to collect damages from state sponsors of terrorism breaks protections for Iran and its property
By AFP
A drone flies over Kyiv during an attack on October 17, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine (Sergei Supinsky/AFP)
December 3, 2022, 9:29 pm
Canada sanctions Iran research, delivery firms over supply of drones to Russia
Foreign Minister Melanie Joly says country ‘will not stand idly by while the regime’s human rights violations increase in scope and intensity’
By AFP
Debris is seen from the crashed Ukrainian as authorities work at the scene in Shahedshahr, southwest of Tehran, Iran, on January 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
July 2, 2020, 7:05 pm
Iran agrees to compensate downed plane victims’ families, Sweden says
Ukrainian aircraft was struck by two missiles and crashed shortly after taking off from Tehran airport on January 8, killing all 176 people on board
By AFP
Rescue teams work amidst debris after a Ukrainian plane carrying 176 passengers crashed near Imam Khomeini airport in the Iranian capital Tehran early in the morning on January 8, 2020, killing everyone on board. (AFP)
June 22, 2020, 7:41 pm
Iran says it will send downed Ukraine airliner’s black boxes to France soon
Zarif says ready to resolve legal issues and discuss compensation for families of victims on Flight 752, hit by two Iranian missiles
By AFP
In this May 28, 2019 photo, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi speaks at a press conference in Tehran, Iran (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
January 17, 2020, 11:15 am
Iran urges world not to turn downing of passenger plane into a ‘political’ issue
Tehran ‘surprised’ by criticism of probe by countries whose citizens were among 176 killed when missiles hit Ukraine airliner, insists it is engaging in ‘far-reaching cooperation’
By ToI Staff and Agencies
This undated photo provided by the family of the late Iranian-Canadian professor Kavous Seyed-Emami, shows him, right, and his wife, Maryam Mombeini, in an unidentified place in Iran. (Family of Kavous Seyed-Emami via AP)
October 12, 2019, 6:32 am
Widow of Iranian-Canadian accused of spying for Israel returns to Canada
Maryam Mombeini was held in Iran for nearly 18 months after her husband, Kavous Seyed Emami, died in Tehran prison
By AFP
Chrystia Freeland is sworn in as minister of foreign affairs during a ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on Tuesday, January 10, 2017. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)
January 12, 2017, 4:37 pm
Trudeau shuffles cabinet, ousts FM who ruffled feathers in Israel
Chrystia Freeland to replace Stephane Dion, who wanted to strengthen ties with ‘other legitimate partners in the region’
By AP and ToI Staff
Workers clean the inside of a cafeteria on July 31, 2002, hours after a bomb exploded at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, killing nine, four of them Americans, and wounding more than 70. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
June 11, 2016, 11:02 pm
Iran condemns Canada court ruling on terror attacks
Tehran says no normalization of ties unless decision to award $13 million to victims of Hamas and Hezbollah is annulled
By AFP
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